Basic used “else”.
It’s nice. “if”, “then”, and “else”. I spent a year programming a shitty roulette game on an Apple 2e back in high school. I still remember the joy of using if/then/else paired with goto to make a horrible mess of spaghetti logic.
But yeah, “else” is nice.
Please God, no. I had to unravel terminal scripting code that was written in some propriety BASIC language with basically no documentation.
Took me a chunk of time trying to figure out how it worked before I made the realization that it was BASIC
Using a standalone ‘else’ would tickle my brain in the same nice way that being able to declare a variable inside an ‘if’ statement as if it were a ‘for’ loop (which you can do in modern C++) does.
Many languages let you scope variables.
In c# you can create an arbitrary scope to declare variables in. Most likely in others as well.
Ah clever, didn’t think of doing this. Not having to encapsulate if statements in scopes would still look cleaner though
